Shin Ultraman (2023) - Movie Review

When I watched and subsequently reviewed Shin Godzilla back in 2016 (man, remember when it felt like that year was the worst that things could get? Good times…), I didn’t think a whole lot of it. Cheap special effects, wordy bureaucratic story, general lack of engaging material; what little I do recall of the film itself isn’t all that positive.

What I certainly wouldn’t have anticipated is that that film would be the origin point for its own cinematic universe: The Shin Japan Heroes Universe as spearheaded by Shin Godzilla’s co-director, writer, and co-editor Hideaki Anno. This universe thus far consists of Godzilla, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (and yet, for some reason, none of the other Rebuild Of Evangelion movies), along with today’s subject. And honestly, just based on this latest entry, not only am I looking forward to where this cinematic universe goes, but I might even give Shin Godzilla another honest go at some point.

Archenemy (2020) - Movie Review

After what happened last time I reviewed a film by writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer with Daniel Isn’t Real last year… not gonna lie, I was slightly dreading his latest. Not because I was expecting it to be bad; I have enough faith in SpectreVision to not steer me wrong, and same goes for the filmmaker behind one of my favourites from 2019. Rather, it’s because of what writing about that film got out of me, and even for how TMI quite a few of my reviews can get, that one went further than most in describing my own history with mental health. I just got done with a pretty heavy review with If Anything Happens I Love You, and I don’t exactly have the energy for an encore at present. Which is why I’m rather thankful that Mortimer’s latest isn’t just a switch-up from what came before, but breaks new ground for SpectreVision’s genre spectrum as well.

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) - Movie Review

Much like Ant-Man And The Wasp was for Infinity War, the latest big screen depiction of Spider-Man feels like exactly what Marvel needed after the culture shock that was Endgame. Just as much sci-fi tinged romantic comedy as it is superhero action bombast, Far From Home finds director Jon Watts and writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers still mining gold out of the juxtaposition of superhero life and ordinary high school life.